Policy issues

Primer: Family Formation and Child-Care Policies

The child-care affordability crisis, then, is best understood not as a failure to subsidize enough institutional care, but as a failure to sustain an economy ordered toward family life.

Explainer: The Talking Filibuster

If the Republican majority can outlast the Democrat minority speeches or can exhaust enough Democrat senators to the point of signing a cloture petition to end debate, then a final vote on the SAVE Act would take place at a simple majority threshold of 51 votes.

What an America First Nuclear Strategy Entails

Sustained deterrence remains indispensable; however, diplomacy should be employed selectively to manage escalation risks, preserve strategic stability, and reduce the likelihood of miscalculation on the continent.

Free Exercise Under Pressure: Civil-Rights Law and the Protection of Worship

Where demonstrators move beyond protected expression and into unlawful entry, physical obstruction, threats, or intimidation within a house of worship, both traditional state-law doctrines and federal civil-rights statutes provide a coherent and complementary basis for accountability.